Eckelmann · ◉ direct ancestor
♂Hans Eckelmann
Born about 1627. Died 1707.
Hans Eckelmann (about 1627 – buried 9 August 1707) was a villager of Goddelau-Erfelden, near the Rhine in the Landgraviate of Hesse-DarmstadtW, who served his parish as a lay judge, a member of the village court and an elder of the church. He was probably the seventh great-grandfather of Ora Emogene Walrath (1925–2014), through his daughter Anna Magdalena Eckelmann (baptized 1668).
Hans married Elisabeth, apparently a stepdaughter of Niclas Horst, at Goddelau-Erfelden on 31 October 1651. Their daughter Anna Magdalena was baptized there on 14 June 1668 and confirmed in 1682, at the age of fourteen. He held office in the parish as a Centschöffe, a lay judge of the Cent, the district court, and a Gerichtsmann, a member of the local court. When he was buried at Goddelau-Erfelden on 9 August 1707, the church book remembered him as a faithful elder of the church and gave his age as eighty years, two months less two days. Three years later Anna Magdalena, her husband Hans Jacob Caputzki and their children left for New York among the PalatineW emigrants of 1710.
Notes
Sources
What is known of Hans comes from Henry Z. Jones Jr.’s The Palatine Families of New York (1985), volume 1, page 118, under John Jacob Caputscher. Jones abstracts, from the Goddelau-Erfelden church books, the baptism of Magdalena, daughter of Hans Eckelmann, on 14 June 1668 and her confirmation in 1682; the marriage of Hans to Elisabeth, stepdaughter of Niclas Horst (Jones marks the name with a question mark), on 31 October 1651; and the burial on 9 August 1707 of Johannes Eckelmann, Centschöffe, Gerichtsmann and faithful church elder, aged 80 years, 2 months less two days. Hans is the everyday form of Johannes. Jones sets the three entries side by side as one family, and the burial age gives a birth about 1627. On the same page Jones places Johann Jacob Caputscher on the Hunter Lists of Palatine emigrants in New York from 1 July 1710.
His parents
Jones calls Hans the son of Philipp Eggelman. An online family tree cites instead a christening of a Johannes Eckels on 4 July 1625, son of Hanss Philips Eckels, which would make him about two years older than his burial age gives, and the same tree notes that the German sources and those Jones cites do not yet agree. His parents are left open here until the records are reconciled.
Family time line
Parents not yet found. This line is still being traced.
Recorded events
| Event | When | Where | Evidence ?on record - the record itself, its image, or a transcript or printed copy of it has been read from a compiled source - an index, a printed genealogy or a memorial page says so not yet documented - in the family record, no source attached yet |
|---|---|---|---|
| Birth from his burial age, 80 yrs. 2 months less two days on 9 Aug 1707 (Jones vol. 1 p.118); an FS index christening of 'Johannes Eckels', 4 Jul 1625, is cited on WikiTree Eckelman-4 |
abt 1627 | from a compiled source | |
| Living at church elder and court juror of the Goddelau-Erfelden parish; daughter Magdalena baptised there 14 Jun 1668 (Jones I p.118) - compiled, no record seen |
1668 | Goddelau-Erfelden, Gross-Gerau, Hesse, Germany | from a compiled source |
| Burial 'Johannes Eckelmann, Centschöffe, Gerichtsmann, and faithful Church-Elder... aged 80 yrs., 2 months, less two days' (Goddelau-Erfelden Chbk., Jones vol. 1 p.118) |
9 Aug 1707 | from a compiled source | |
| Occupation Centschöffe (lay judge of the Cent court), Gerichtsmann and church elder at Goddelau-Erfelden (Jones vol. 1 p.118) |
from a compiled source |
Sources
- Jones, Henry Z, Jr., The Palatine Families of New York: A Study of the German Immigrants Who Arrived in Colonial New York in 1710, vol. 1 (A-L) (Universal City, Calif., 1985) - archive.org palatinefamilies0001jone, the owner's borrow download (shelf jones_palatine_1) — Birth, Living at, Burial, Occupation, about this person, family with Elisabeth (surname unknown), Marriage (Elisabeth (surname unknown))
Borders as they stood about 1650 (they follow the event under the mouse), from the historical-basemaps project, the Newberry Library's Atlas of Historical County Boundaries (states and territories, 1783 on) and Natural Earth; the colonies and provinces are drawn along today's lines.
Line of descent
Descendants
- Anna Magdalena Eckelmann 1668–
- Anna Margaretha Caputzgi abt 1697–